Folk Roots Radio Episode 490: In Conversation with… Bill Garrett

Folk Roots Radio Episode 490: feat. Bill Garrett in Conversation

Jan 24 2020

We’re giving over the whole of Episode 490 of Folk Roots Radio to a fabulous in-depth conversation with Bill Garrett who sat down us at the 2019 Folk Music Ontario conference to talk about his long career in music and the development of the wonderful boutique folk music record label Borealis Records. We wrap up the conversation with music from Bill Garrett, Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop, Naming The Twins, Durham County Poets and Shelley Posen. Check out the full playlist below.

Interview

Bill Garrett has been involved in the music business for over 40 years. Starting out as a singer-songwriter, Bill went on to work at the CBC for 18 years, co-hosting Sylvia Tyson’s folk program Touch the Earth and later producing The Entertainers and Six Days on the Road with musician-host David Essig. Since leaving the CBC in the mid-1990s, Bill has produced more than 75 folk, blues and jazz recordings and in 1996 founded Borealis Records with fellow musicians Grit Laskin, Paul Mills and Ken Whiteley. Bill Garrett is also part of a wonderful folk duo with partner Sue Lothrop. Bill Garrett sat down with Folk Roots Radio at the 2019 Folk Music Ontario conference for an in-depth conversation about his career in music.

For more information about Bill Garrett, visit willymacproductions.ca.

Listen

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